The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-12-31
IN RAILWAY CIRCLES.
4 Tribute to Mr.. Potter - The
Deadly Car StOVe-The Nails.


Our PRESENT mail system is a beauty.
Yesterday there was received at The
HERALD Office couple of letters from
country correspondents; one bore the
date of Heber City, Dec. IS, and the
other Montpelier, Dec. II.
THE ORE PRODUCERS of Haley, Idaho,
want lower rates from the Union Pa
ciic on their products, and have ap-
pointed q committee to work TO that
end.
IT Is stated by one of Mr.. Potter's
friends that he himself, though vet
er N railroad man, and intimately &C
quainted with the condition and oppor-
tunities OF western railways, was
amazed at the chance that existed to
push The Union Pacific forward. So
much Gid this impress him sindeed, that
as soon as he was installed IN his new
Office he drew some OF his money
from other invest -nents and bought
.2C00 shares of the Union Pa
cItic stock for his own account.
The best thing the Union Pacific road
has done in years it accomplished when
it look Vice-President Potter away
from the Chicago, Burlington &Quincy
and made him general manager of the
Union Pacific lines. Till that time even
the most aggressive of the Union Pacific
people had no adequate idea of what
earning power their property really
had. He has shown them, and Wall
Street has stood astounded as month
by month ne has sent his figures
amounting higher and higher.-RaiItVGy
Ne4Us.
The RECENT cold snap has caused
thousands of aIlway travellers to renew
| their acquaintance with the deadly
Car stoves. No great disaster has thus
far happened this winter, but the
| holocaustS of last winter are still too
fresh in the minds of passengers not to
make them uncomfortably timuTous.
From the record of previous yeara, &C
cidents are certain to happen, and The
| deadly car stove, if retained, must in
| evitably bring in its customary winters
work.
l. ANTHRACITE COAL seems to be an in
teresting toCic at the present with our
Colorado Deighbors. Surveys are now
being made by Chief Engineer Wiggles
worth to ascertain the feasibility of
| running line of railroad from Car
| bondsle, in the Roaring Fork Valley, 10
| the anthracite coal mine OF Chair
! Mountain. owned by the Pacific Goal &
Coke COMPANY. A dispatch says when
this is completed, anthracite coal can be
delivered in Aspen, Glenwood, Lead
vile, aud the valley cities to the east,
| and 10 Salt Lake and to the west, as
| soon as a connection is made with
! Grand Junction. The surveys are being
! made by the Elk Mountain Railway
| Company. of which Orlando Metcalf is
president, Thomas H. Wigglssworth
| vice president and chief engineer. and
| ii. D. Fisher secretary and treasurer.
THE RECENT action of the Chicago h
! North Western Railway Company
/ whereby an accumulated surplus Of
sl0,000,U00 was applied TO improves snt
| of the property in vario 10 direc TONS
most beneficial to the public, may be
| fairly characterized as dividend to lis
patrons. The splendid depot facilities
in Chicago are supplemented bv equally
| appropriate and commodious stutio4
| hOu, es at all points on its line. It's
| b. idges are of iron, it's Culyerts stone;
all approaches are solid embahkment.
| Its tracks OF steel are 50 thoroughly
ballssted that days journey scarcely
affords dnst enough to soil a cam brio
handkerchief. Its trains embrace
engines and cars of most modern
pattern, with all appliances nee
essary to promote comfort and
q sense of security to lis millions
of patrons. The instinct OF its manage
ment. ever alert to forecast pubic
wants, finds its reflex in the eagerness
with which all attaches of whatever
grade, avail themselves of every oppor-
tunity to contribute, by countless little
attentions, to the enjoyment and we'll
being o. all with whom they come III
contact. To the accuracy OF this state
ment the thousands of new settlers 10
Gated on its lines in Illinois, Michigan,
Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Dakota or
Nebraska, and the millions of tourists
Who have journeyed to the Rocky
Mountain resorts or the PAcifc slope
by the pioneer overland route, will bear
most sheerful testimony.-From the
HteTiQr, Chicago. October 6, 1887,